The DePaul Blue Demons flashed high quality basketball in the first two games of the PK80 Invitational tournament but couldn’t sustain that level of play across an entire game, until Sunday evening when the Blue Demons used a complete, 40-minute effort to beat the Portland Pilots 82-69 to salvage a win in their final game of this prestigious early-season tournament.
DePaul, a team that has shot 25.3 percent from 3-point land and has averaged less than five made 3-pointers per game this season, had one of their few good 3-point shooting nights tonight against Portland. The Blue Demons poured in 12 3-point field goals, shooting 48 percent from that range to keep a comfortable distance between themselves and the Pilots for most of the game.